The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

I'm not in the service business.

My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'